Remarkable TV: What If People Don’t Want to Be Coached?

What if people don’t want to be coached? Check out this episode of Remarkable TV for tips and ideas to coach the “uncoachable”…

In a recent Coaching workshop I was asked – what do you do if the person doesn’t want to be coached? It is a good question, and one deceptive in its depth. I mean, we can’t make people want to be coached, we must help them see the need or create the desire. Which points to today’s tweet: Kevin’s Tweet – The effective coach must first help create a desire to be coached. From @KevinEikenberry I know, that is all well and good, but you want to know how do you do it? It is a good question. There are several reasons people might not want to be coached – and while I can’t tell you which one it will be your first job is to try to determine that so you can help people make the choice to be coached. Reasons include: – Complacency – Time in life – Lack of awareness of need – Or no compelling reason why (I mean it is change, after all!) Once you can identify one or more possible reasons, you can work to uncover it and help the person make a new choice. If no new choice is forthcoming you have another question to ask. Is the person’s performance meeting the job expectations? If it is, maybe you move on. If not, the consequence of being fired might be a new motivator for the person in question.